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...liberal Charles R. Gay as Exchange president in place of Richard Whitney. But Gay presently swung to the right: when the market crashed last August he made a speech blaming it on SEC regulation. Paul Shields then took it upon himself to go see SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. Thenceforth, while Douglas attacked from Washington, Paul Shields and John Hanes worked from within. The Richard Whitney affair was the Trojan horse which delivered the Exchange into their hands. John Hanes then went blithely to Washington as a SECommissioner. Broker Shields had a finger in choosing the 27 new governors provided...
Although Boss Pendergast announced after the 1936 campaign that active management of his machine would thenceforth rest in the hands of Nephew James Michael Pendergast, he has by no means relinquished his duties as policy maker. Day after last week's election, Democrat Pendergast, after exclaiming that "this is a better tonic than a carload of medicine," indicated that he might be a more stub born obstacle to Democrats Clark and Roosevelt than optimists might think. Having invited reporters into his office for one of his rare interviews, the old boss announced that he was going on the warpath...
...been sewed on by nonunion hands. Local 21313, Theatrical Costume Workers Union of the American Federation of Labor immediately threw cordons of pickets around the theatre for two nights. On the third night a settlement was reached. The settlement: the offending bead was plucked off, the part played thenceforth in two beads...
...there is a promise of native warmth when the plane plops down in the midst of peasant festivities in a Norse village. But neither promise is kept. Just as soon as they artfully can, the script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture proceeds through the high & hackneyed jinks of a machine-made plot. Ethel Merman sings with her usual lid-off verve, like a hotcha stenographer at a house party, and skates a little bit. Ameche and Romero spark like worn-out cigaret lighters. A swing quintet, headed by Raymond...
...Thenceforth he is free to develop his special talents in that line of endeavor which best suits him. Whether he is by natural inclination a sports writer, a feature writer, an interviewer, a humorist, a dramatic critic, or what not, he is certain to find in the CRIMSON a most convenient and profitable outlet for his abilities...